"The" is the particular article
Articles are like adjectives, they modify nouns
"The" is particular, because it specifies the noun you are talking about. If I say "Let's read the book" I am referring to a specific one
A dialectical journal is another name for a double-entry journal or a reader-response journal. It’s a journal that records a dialogue, or conversation, between the ideas in the text and the ideas of the reader.
I think the mood in the excerpt is shocked and somber.
They people are shocked by the swiftness of the sickness. They did not anticipate the grim outcome. This is because the patient is very young and should have a stronger immune system and she has been sick for only a few days.
"who was very young"
"She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die."
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what do you mean? I just don't get it no hate